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ACMDIS
2006
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
The spatial character of sensor technology
By considering the spatial character of sensor-based interactive systems, this paper investigates how discussions of seams and seamlessness in ubiquitous computing neglect the com...
Stuart Reeves, Tony P. Pridmore, Andy Crabtree, Jo...
DAMON
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Critical sections: re-emerging scalability concerns for database storage engines
Critical sections in database storage engines impact performance and scalability more as the number of hardware contexts per chip continues to grow exponentially. With enough thre...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Anastasia Ailamak...
ECIR
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Balancing Exploration and Exploitation in Learning to Rank Online
Abstract. As retrieval systems become more complex, learning to rank approaches are being developed to automatically tune their parameters. Using online learning to rank approaches...
Katja Hofmann, Shimon Whiteson, Maarten de Rijke
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Mining social networks using heat diffusion processes for marketing candidates selection
Social Network Marketing techniques employ pre-existing social networks to increase brands or products awareness through word-of-mouth promotion. Full understanding of social netw...
Hao Ma, Haixuan Yang, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
SIGIR
2012
ACM
11 years 10 months ago
Top-k learning to rank: labeling, ranking and evaluation
In this paper, we propose a novel top-k learning to rank framework, which involves labeling strategy, ranking model and evaluation measure. The motivation comes from the difficul...
Shuzi Niu, Jiafeng Guo, Yanyan Lan, Xueqi Cheng